News from 2013 | Honolulu

Honolulu Scholar Benoit-Bird honored for ocean eavesdropping

Posted on Monday, July 15, 2013

2002 Honolulu Scholar Kelly Benoit-Bird has been named a PopTech! Fellow and received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" grant for her work to develop and use accoustic equipment to study marine mammals and the open ocean ecosystem. Read more.Read more

Honolulu Chapter Annouces 2013 Scholars

Posted on Saturday, July 13, 2013

Meet the ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter 2013 Scholars.

Two Scholar of the Year Awards were presented this year, one to Zachary Bergeron for the potential societal benefit of his work with peptides from marine snail toxins, and one to Jonathan Whitney for scientific merit for combining genetic, behavioral and ecological... Read more

Scholar Garners Multiple Honors

Posted on Saturday, May 25, 2013

2002 ARCS Foundation Honolulu Scholar Kelly Benoit-Bird continues to receive recognition for her work to develop and apply acoustic equipment to study marine mammals and the open ocean ecosystem since graduating from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

The associate professor in the College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences... Read more

Honolulu Scholar Awards Banquet

Posted on Saturday, April 27, 2013

Reaching for the Stars nameplate with figure and stellar sky Reaching for the Stars, ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter's annual scholar awards banquet, is scheduled Monday, May 6, 2013 at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki.

Chapter members will present 12 scholar awards and announce... Read more

Honolulu Hearts of Gold Event Honors the Elmores

Posted on Saturday, April 6, 2013

ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter held its annual Heart of Gold fundraiser on Saturday, February 13, 2013 at the Outrigger Canoe Club. It was a small but very congenial group who came together to honor the chapter’s Golden Hearts, Mr. and Mrs. George Elmore.
Seven smiling women ... Read more

Honolulu Scholar Presentations Set for April 20

Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Honolulu Chapter's 2013 ARCS Scholars present their research to chapter members, guests and a panel of judges during a free public symposium and poster session Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. to noon in POST 723 on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus.

The symposium

Testing Tsunami Loads in the Wake of Tohoku

Posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Yurly Mikhaylov headshot Civil and environmental engineering scholar Yuriy Mikhaylov’s research on tsunami-resistant structures is more important than ever given the destruction of the 2011 devastating tsunami and earthquake in Japan.

Mikhaylov became interested in design of structures during his undergraduate studies at the University of... Read more

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